Company Meeting

How to decrease Accident and Injury from traffic

1. Promote safety, injury prevention, disability prevention, and develop the quality of life.
2. Take a leading role in planning, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating injury prevention project via multi-disciplinary cooperation.
3. Present essential statistics and information to high level management for determining policies, and investigate risk factors through a research process.
4. Develop efficient emergency care and rehabilitation services for trauma patients.
5. Plead for and campaign alertness in injury prevention at all levels.
6. Volunteer to participate in safety implementation and activities.

To what extent the above roles are taken depends on the level of concern of the leader at
each health unit. This denotes the concern of the problem and the urgent need to manage it.

Since accident injuries are among the first three major causes of death in all provinces in Thailand, and since a great number of trauma patients add to the burden of every hospital, it is an obligation of all public health concerned to advocate prevention of injuries and death.

The public health teamwork, has accomplished all of their roles, such
as:

o        Promote safety by developing a campaign model, producing cutouts, and broadcasting on radio or other media with a professional teamwork.

o        Take a leading role in planning developing, implementing, and monitoring injury prevention, such as in campaigning for the use of helmets, strict banning of drunk drivers, reduction of festive accidents.

o        Present important statistics and data via the monthly meeting of accident prevention committee and via all sorts of mass media.

o        Act as a major mechanism in managing emergency medical care and in developing an ever-efficient and standardized system.

o        Advocate alertness in accident prevention at all levels and opportunities, and among all organizations.

o        Volunteer to cooperate in all safety activities, locally and nationwide.
The provincial public health doctor and the director of the hospital are the key persons who
create and support the secretary team. The members of the team have a very good understanding of their roles, their obligations, and hence work enthusiastically

 

The issue being criticized mostly is the unit or organization responsible for accident prevention, especially road injury prevention. For instance, the police are to enforce helmet wearing or traffic regulations, engineers are responsible for building a safe road, and teachers are in charge of establishing safety awareness in their pupils' minds. The frequently asked question is what role do we take and at which point do we intervene along the injury prevention process

Based on the data available, this study has provided an estimate of the current road fatality toll both globally and by region. It has also, shown the weaknesses of the existing data and the need to put any road casualty estimate into context. Data on fatalities is more readily available, but it is likely that casualty information would present a clearer overall picture of how much road crashes impact on life and the economy. The following points show possible areas that could be examined within the GRSP programmed so that a greater understanding of the road crash situation can be obtained.

• Fatalities represent the ‘tip of the road casualty iceberg’, and much more priority needs to be given to the collection of road injury data. This information can then be used to assess the relative importance of the problem from both an economic and social viewpoint.
• A more accurate picture of the number of injuries sustained in road crashes would be obtained from hospital data. Hospital recording systems could be improved and complement the police system. The medical community, led by WHO, could give greater priority to monitoring road crash casualties and include road crashes in national hospital surveillance systems.
• The accident database in many countries could be improved with an accident-recording database such as MAAP, which provides an easy to use and low cost method of storing and analyzing data.
• Evidence exists that inadequate use is made of even the limited amount of accident information collected in developing countries. More research is needed into the dissemination and application of crash data in selected countries.
• The economic costs of road crashes are, in general, not well understood as much of the cost is hidden and incurred in small-scale crashes rather than in large incidents like rail or air disasters. Further research is merited on crash costing, including the application of crash costs.
• Crash statistics alone are insufficient to assess the road safety situation and other performance indicators, especially those that can be targeted at improving vulnerable road user safety, should be used. Possible indicators include the number of pedestrian crossings installed, number of safety audits conducted, i.e. inspecting a road for the accident, number of hazardous locations improved, etc.

This study has attempted to identify the magnitude and nature of the road safety problem worldwide but particularly in the LMC regions of Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean. Hopefully the newly formed GRSP can assist to reduce this global toll of death and injury by the mechanism of partnerships that promote collaboration and coordination of road safety activities worldwide.

 

http://www.factbook.net/EGRF_Summary.htm

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/monitor22/monitor22.pdf